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An acquaintance recently asked me to tell her what the ACLU was doing. "But don’t tell me about that Guantánamo stuff," she said. "Why should I care about those people when they aren’t even Americans?" There are many other areas where the...
While we did give up some things over the past 18 months, Harvard remains an environment of unique depth and breadth. For instance, in FAS we offer instruction in more than 70 ancient and modern languages, far more than any other American university. No language programs were eliminated because of...
For the first project, which is now on display, students learned from Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and culture, to write “Allah” in Arabic script and were told to represent a concept associated with God in the Islamic tradition through any media...
For the second project, students designed modern-day mosques showcased through models or videos, while the final project will involve writing a love lyric or narrative epic based on Persian and Arabic examples.
An earlier version of the Apr. 12 news article "Gen Ed Promotes Creative Classwork" incorrectly stated that Professor of German Art and Culture Jeffrey F. Hamburger taught students to write "Allah" in Arabic script. In fact, Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Program Ali S. Asani ’77...